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Large Primes

2006-01-05 17:26:43.611979+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Latest large prime number discovery:

The number that the team found is 9.1 million digits long. It is a Mersenne prime known as M30402457 -- that's 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1.

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